Ningbo's solar photovoltaic product exports fell sharply for two consecutive months

Under the weight of the United States wielding the “double reverse” stick and European countries’ spending cuts, the photovoltaic products that had a good export situation half a year ago have recently encountered “Waterloo”. The author was informed yesterday from Ningbo Customs that in October and November of this year, the city’s solar cell exports showed two consecutive months of negative growth and year-on-year growth.

U.S. "Double Counter" Greatest Hits Clean Energy On October 19th this year, solar battery giant SolarWorld USA, headquartered in Germany, took the lead and united with six other companies to submit applications to the US International Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Commerce for exporting solar energy to China. Batteries (plates) and components undergo anti-dumping and anti-subsidy merger investigations, levying a high punitive tariff of over 100% on Chinese solar cells imported into the United States.

On November 8, the U.S. Department of Commerce formally decided to launch an investigation into anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures against Chinese solar cells (boards) exported to the United States. The investigation period was April to September 2011. This is the first time that the United States has launched a "double counter" investigation on China's photovoltaic products.

It is understood that Ningbo enterprises export about 20 million U.S. dollars of solar panels each year. In this “Double-Counter” survey, a total of 31 Ningbo PV manufacturers were involved, including many solar PV companies, such as Sun Solar, Qixin, Dongfang Risheng, Shanshan Yulika and Pepsi. Ningbo Foreign Trade Company.

Ningbo photovoltaic industry encounters "winter"

The United States and the European Union are the major export markets for photovoltaic products in Ningbo. At the same time that the United States launched a "double counter" investigation, major photovoltaic countries such as Germany and Italy issued news of the reduction of subsidies. For example, the German Ministry of Economic Affairs, the world's largest photovoltaic application market, proposed to limit the installation of new photovoltaic power generation in 2012 to 1GW (one billion megawatts) to help control the government's high subsidies for photovoltaic power generation.

Since the fourth quarter of this year, the demand for photovoltaic products in China and the United States has fallen sharply. The related companies in the city have already experienced chills. “In the first half of the year, we have six production lines that have been put into operation, with an annual capacity of 200 megawatts. Currently, only two production lines can be used to 'feed' orders.” said the person in charge of Shanshan Eulka, one of the photovoltaic giants in the city. , Enterprises can only shrink the scale, reduce production by cutting down on the winter.

Customs statistics show that in October, the city exported 270,000 solar cells, a decrease of 20.6% and 40.5% year-on-year, respectively, and a value of 44.63 million US dollars, a year-on-year drop of 65.4%. In November, Ningbo exported 235,000 solar cells, a decrease of 46.3% and 13% year-on-year and month-on-month, respectively. The monthly export volume was the lowest in the year; the value was 46.19 million US dollars, a sharp drop of 72.9% year-on-year. In addition, the average export price of solar cells fell by more than 50% year-on-year in the past two months.

Next year's exports to the United States will be bright and clear?

For the United States' "double anti-" survey, Ningbo PV companies are not willing to give in to this. "Although our company's share of the U.S. market is not large at present, the U.S. market is the company's future development goal, so it is necessary to respond to it. Therefore, we must respond to it." said Wang Zhenjun, deputy general manager of Ningbo Ridi Solar Energy Co., Ltd. Tell the author.

Recently, a message came from the other side of the ocean: On December 26, the U.S. Department of Commerce stated that it will postpone the preliminary determination of China's solar cell (plate) countervailing investigations from January 12 to January 2012. On the 14th.

The U.S. Department of Commerce postponed the preliminary investigation of the “double counter” investigation of photovoltaic companies in China and was interpreted as positive by some industry experts. “China and the United States are in need of each other, and both companies do not want to abandon their respective markets.” Meng Xianyi, deputy director of the China Renewable Energy Society, said that while the United States conducted anti-dumping and countervailing investigations on Chinese PV products, China also announced that U.S. photovoltaics conducted the same investigation. If things continue to ferment, the final result can only be a double loss.

However, this does not mean that China's photovoltaic industry will soon be out of the "double reverse" haze. At present, the U.S. Department of Commerce has chosen to export two Chinese companies with the most photovoltaic cell components in the United States - Wuxi Suntech Power and Changzhou Trina Solar, as two mandatory responders. “The United States has chosen two companies with more subsidies to enforce the lawsuit and can award a higher anti-subsidy and anti-dumping tax rate, which is obviously unfair to other Chinese export enterprises,” said a person in charge of a solar energy company in the Ningbo National Hi-tech Zone.